Matt McVeigh - Theatrical production design

Project: African Queen - Chamber Opera

Janus Entertainment, 2009

Composer: Tim Cunniffe

Librettist: John Senczuk

Director: John Milson

Designer: Matt McVeigh

Lighting Designer: Jon Davies

As the impact of the First World War reaches the depths of the African Jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mechanic and a spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by chance. Deeply incompatible and fighting heat, malaria and bullets, as well as each other, they make their escape down the treacherous Ulanga river on the steamboat The African Queen.